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Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a giant of the Civil Rights Movement who called on our Nation to live up to the highest ideals of our founding. We pay tribute to the incredible life & accomplishments of Dr. King & his memory will inspire us for generations to come.
This country is so accustomed to its monstrous health care system that when a 2-year-old child with a genetic condition needs to rely on a high school robotics team to meet his basic health care needs the media thinks its a feel-good story, not a dystopian nightmare.
This 2-year-old's family couldn't afford his $20,000 electric wheelchair, and their insurance didn't cover it. So, a high school robotics team built him one for free ❤️️
Why be so cheap? Give everyone $1 million a day, every day, forever. And three soy lattes a day. And a foot massage.
We have a magic money tree — we should use it!
BREAKING: Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds, claiming the info is "confidential"
4.5 MILLION businesses received government funds. Zero transparency.
Unconscionable, jaw-dropping corruption.
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@AOC
: Our country is going hungry and the week before Thanksgiving the Senate broke. I don’t care what party you are. It is an abandonment of responsibilities as elected officials who are charged with acting in the public trust.
Here's how much of their wealth the 10 richest Americans gave to charity in 2018:
Ellison: 0%
Page: 0%
Brin: 0%
Bezos: 0.1%
D. Koch: 0.1%
C. Koch: 0.5%
Zuckerberg: 0.7%
Bloomberg: 1.5%
Gates: 2.6%
Buffet: 3.9%
Billionaire philanthropy will not save us. Tax the rich.
I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President. I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to
@NatlParkService
to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!
Sen.
@tedcruz
on S1: "When Republicans had the White House and both houses of Congress we didn't try this. We didn’t try to rig the system so that our side could never lose an election."
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@AOC
: If you're calling for an end to unrest, but not calling out police brutality, not calling for health care as a human right, not calling for an end to housing discrimination, all you're asking for is the continuation of quiet oppression.
Universal health care COULD NEVER WORK
...unless you live in:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
S Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UK
BREAKING: Gilead is charging $3,000+ for its COVID drug, remdesivir.
Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug. It should be in the public domain.
Instead, Big Pharma is robbing us blind.
We must shame
@GileadSciences
into changing course. Please share this.
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@AOC
: Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?
Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.
Travyon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old kid. He was killed carrying a bag of skittles. The right-wing called him a threat.
Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed. He shot and killed 2 people with an AR-15. The right-wing calls him a hero.
Days of guaranteed paid sick leave:
🇱🇺50
🇳🇴50
🇫🇮48
🇦🇹45
🇩🇪44
🇧🇪39
🇸🇪38
🇩🇰36
🇳🇱35
🇪🇸33
🇮🇹29
🇬🇷28
🇯🇵28
🇫🇷24
🇨🇦22
🇮🇸18
🇮🇪17
🇨🇭15
🇦🇹10
🇬🇧10
🇳🇿5
.
.
.
🇺🇸0
Having no paid sick leave isn't just immoral.
With the coronavirus outbreak, it's also a massive public health risk.
BREAKING: Florida just passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to 1.4 million people with a past felony conviction. Not only does this repeal one of the country’s worst Jim Crow laws, it’s also the largest expansion in voting rights since the Voting Rights Act.
So Elon Musk became $265,700,000,000 richer during the pandemic, but we’re being told inflation is skyrocketing because we got a $1,400 check last year? What a joke.
.
@AOC
to military contractor exec: I could have covered the insulin costs of a community of 21,400 people for the cost of your price-gouging. I could have sent 21 kids to college. I could have sent 18 toddlers to free preschool for a year. Why should we give you another dime?
As America transforms into a killing field, here are the top recipients of campaign donations from the
@NRA
:
Sen. Burr: $6.9M
Sen. Blunt: $4.5M
Sen. Tillis: $4.4M
Sen. Gardner: $3.8M
Sen. Rubio: $3.3M
Sen. Ernst: $3.1M
Sen. Portman: $3M
Sen. Young: $2.8M
Sen. Cassidy: $2.8M
Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to COVID:
Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms
Netherlands: Up to 90%
Norway: Up to 90%
Germany: Up to 87%
France: Up to 84%
Italy: 80%
United Kingdom: Up to 80%
Canada: Up to 75%
United States: 0%
BREAKING: The Pentagon funneled nearly $1,000,000,000 of taxpayer money meant for masks and medical equipment to defense contractors building jet engines and body armor.
“Is that what we’ve come to?” Sen. Susan Collins says, criticizing Democrats over coronavirus economic relief bill delay.
“We don’t have another day. We don’t have another hour. We don’t have another minute to delay acting.”
This is incredible.
@RepKatiePorter
held up Maine’s SNAP Benefits eligibility form and asked the conservative who ran the program to disclose the same intrusive and burdensome info required by the form.
#ProtectKids
Adam Toledo was a 13-year-old kid. Police killed him while he was unarmed with his hands up in the air.
Kyle Rittenhouse was armed. He shot and killed 2 people with an AR-15. Police let him go home.
"How did Ted Cruz think he could get away with this?" you ask about a man who faced zero consequences for inciting a white nationalist insurrection against our government.